Famous Ordinaire Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Ordinaire poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous ordinaire poems. These examples illustrate what a famous ordinaire poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...But that's beyond me. Yes, your speech was crude.
Sound claret after olives -- yours and mine;
But Medoc slips into vin ordinaire.
(I'll drink my first at Genoa to your health.)
Raise it to Hock. You'll never catch my style.
And, after all, the middle-classes grip
The middle-class -- for Brompton talk Earl's Court.
Perhaps you're right. I'll see you in the Times --
A quarter-column of eye-searing print,
A leader once a quarter -- then a war;
The Strand abellow through the fog...Read more of this...
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Kipling, Rudyard
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